Samsung shows off 64 Gigabit flash memory

SamsungflashmemoryWith SSD or Solid State Drives slow to pick up speed in terms of sales and competitive pricing, this news might help quicken the pace. Samsung is showing off a new NAND flash memory module with a capacity of 64 Gigabits; not gigabytes, so this one chip doesn’t offer enough capacity for a Windows installation as an example. However, the 30-nanometer circuit chips could be stacked on a single board to offer large capacity, say 128 GB, flash hard drives. We won’t see any products with these chips until 2009 and it’s possible that Samsung could focus more on integrated storage for digital audio players, phones and the like. Let’s hope they don’t limit the potential applications so we can get some high-capacity, lower-priced flash storage in our mobile computers.

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